Dell PowerVault 715N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) - Manual (Page 21)

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Advanced Disk and Volume Management
Dell™ PowerVault™ 715N NAS Appliance System Administrator's Guide
Using the Array Manager to Manage Your Disks and Volumes
Managing Hard Drives
Reinstalling the PowerVault 715N Operating System
Advanced disk and volume management provides information about using the Dell OpenManage™ Array Manager to
manage your disks and volume and your physical hard drives.
Using the Array Manager to Manage Your Disks and Volumes
Although the Dell OpenManage Array Manager provides a comprehensive solution to storage management, you should use
it for advanced features that cannot be performed from the Disks tab in the NAS Manager. You can access the Array
Manager through the Terminal Services Advanced Client in the NAS Manager.
Array Manager allows you to configure your storage devices and the logical volumes contained in your system. Array
Manager displays storage configuration in both a physical and a logical view. The physical view shows the physical
connections between the storage devices. The logical view shows a logical representation of your storage as logical
volumes.
Array Manager provides a single console for the disk and volume configuration from which you can display and manage all
of your storage information in a graphical environment.
NOTE: You cannot hot swap hard drives on the Dell™ Powervault™ 715N NAS Appliance.
Launching Array Manager From the NAS Manager
NOTE: To use the NAS Manager, you must be logged in as administrator. The NAS Manager default administrator
user name is administrator and the default password is powervault.
To launch the Array Manager from the NAS Manager, perform the following steps:
1. On the NAS Manager primary menu, click Maintenance.
2. Click Terminal Services.
3. Log into the Terminal Services session.
4. From the PowerVault Advanced Administration Menu, click Disk Management under System Management.
Array Manager Console
The Array Manager console display uses a tree view to display storage objects in the left pane of the window and tabbed
views in the right pane to display additional information about storage objects. The following sections provide more
information about the left and right panes.
Left Pane
The left pane shows objects the Array Manager software detects. The major storage objects are the local system object,
arrays, disks, and volumes. By clicking the plus sign (+) in front of a storage object, you can see the subordinate storage
objects under that object.
Disks represent the disks recognized by the Microsoft® Windows® Powered operating system.
Volumes include dynamic RAID volumes created in Array Manager, primary and extended partitions, and logical
drives associated with extended partitions.